Recently added articles from Social Education:
Making sense of social studies with visualization tools.
Apr 01, 2009; ... On January 20, 2009, Americans witnessed a historical event as Barack Obama took the oath of office and became the 44th president of the United States. While the general population reflected on the event, students in a U.S. government course were busy analyzing the inaugural address. In ...
Where and why there? Spatial thinking with geographic information systems.
Apr 01, 2009; ... Social studies educators have long recognized the importance of developing students' spatial perspective on the world. The social studies curriculum includes many topics that involve an understanding of where people and places are located, the patterns of human settlement, migration, and ...
Teaching with rather than about geographic information systems.
Apr 01, 2009; ... In 1994, the National Council for Geography Education's Standards Project singled out Geographic Information Systems (GIS) as powerful tools for developing students' geographic skills and perspectives. (1) The group made two predictions. First, that GIS would eventually permeate business, ...
Editor's notebook.(technology and instruction)
Apr 01, 2009; ... Young people are fascinated by technology, and teachers who find ways to convert their students' favorite devices into vehicles of instruction can look for exciting results. In this issue of Social Education, our Technology Department editors, Michael Berson and Meghan McGlinn Manfra, have ...
Teaching with documents, and documents, and more documents: the National Archives digital partnerships.(Teaching with Documents)
Apr 01, 2009; ... What if ... ... you were teaching a lesson on the French Revolution, and rather than assigning your students to read a section in their textbook on the subject, they could read Thomas Jefferson's letter to John Jay describing what he witnessed in Paris during early July 1789, ...